Your top 5 Sci Fi films

[tiefighterboy]

1 alien remember watching this at my parents caravan when i was young and almost crying i was so scared
2 flash gordon seen this at the pics on holiday at butlins... " Gordons alive !!! "
3 the last starfighter dad bought this from a flea market on vhs , me and my bro wore the tape out it was watched so many times
4 terminator 2 when bad to the bone plays as Arnie spins off on his stolen harley....class
5 ice pirates / the thing , when the guys head turns into a spider " you gotta be ****in kidding me "


Andy

I almost forgot "Ice Pirates"............I have not seen that movie in a long time.

 

[silver grin]

I am a huge fan of Di Caprio so I think I might be biased!

So.....................Leo does it for you, does he!? :wink: :lol:

Ha! :lol:

Me and a mate were discussing this the other night.... we both agreed that Di Caprio is without doubt the best actor of his generation. No-one at all even comes close.

(By the way i'm not counting Titanic or Romeo and Juliet :wink: )

 

[weasel]

So that's a "YES" then! :lol:

 

[PGowdy]

(By the way i'm not counting Titanic or Romeo and Juliet :wink: )

I am... :lol:

Inception was pretty good. The concept was excellent and tho complex, i didn't find the plot confusing.
Listen carefully and see if i got it right... they, being dream manipulators so to speak, have to go in a dream within a dream within a dream of a guy to plant an idea deep in his psychi in order that he will, thinking the idea is his, defer his late fathers business and fortune so that that other guy can reap the wealth. They go 3 dreams deep because that deep down in the mind, when they plant this IDEA, he will now think it is his idea. Each dream 'level' also has a different time varient, ie; -

10 hrs in the real world = 4hrs Dream level 1
4hrs Dream level 1 = 1 hr dream level 2
1 hr dream level 2 = 10mins dream level 3 and vice versa,
That is to say, if you spent 10hrs in dream level 3, you have been under for like, 2 years in real time.
Man, it IS complex. But it does make sense.

The problem i had, is the story is just very thin. It's all concept. Everything you see is designed to see, to go ooooh... The characters are ultra thin and difficult to care about. The characters and environment/world we see are given next to no back story or explanation. And the whole plot to steal the rich guys cash is really secondary to everything else, which is nothing. Just the concept. There just isn't much point or base to any of it.
HAving said that, it's a good watch for the amazing effects and THAT concept, which is an interesting one and the whole time differential of the dream layers was very clever i thought and well put together for that end sequence.

Anyway, that's my two cents.
Like has been said, it's basically an attempt at a new Matrix but nowhere near as good.

 

[Capetown]

(By the way i'm not counting Titanic or Romeo and Juliet :wink: )

10 hrs in the real world = 4hrs Dream level 1
4hrs Dream level 1 = 1 hr dream level 2
1 hr dream level 2 = 10mins dream level 3 and vice versa,
That is to say, if you spent 10hrs in dream level 3, you have been under for like, 2 years in real time.
Man, it IS complex. But it does make sense.

That's the other way round I think Pete.

 

[PGowdy]

Yes you're completely right. My mistake..
A few seconds in the real world would be minutes in the 1st dream and hours in the 2nd etc etc. Should have double checked that after i wrote it.... to confusing. :lol:

 

[Capetown]

Can't forget the Blackhole either 8) Scared the crap out of me that one. :shock: Not bad for a Disney flick.

I have watched it for the first time today after being reminded of it by you. Pretty scary, especially Maximilian and the 'droidified' crew. I had a picture book of that movie when I was young and even that scared the hell out of me!

 

[airjedijamie]

mine are
1.donnie darko (it about as messed up as my life and it made sense the first time )
2.flash gordon (one of my friends is it it )
3.Tron
4.alien
5.time bandits (dont know it this counts but i love it)

 

[Josh]

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[weasel]

Ok, so Josh's top five currently has 27 films in it! :lol:

 

[Josh]

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[weasel]

It alright mate, we know all they teach you convicts in school is how to hot wire a Ute! :wink:

And clearly sports class no longer includes "how to play Cricket"!

 

[Josh]

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